Audie Leon Murphy
At five feet, five and a hundred and ten
The Marines said, “sorry, too small of a man.”
Yet he became greatest of World War men,
The Army’s David to Goliath stands.
An orphan at the early age of sixteen,
Enlisted at nineteen then off to war.
As part of the 15th infantry team,
Lived four hundred days of front-line gore.
Audie earned
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Categories:
leon, courage, dedication, independence day,
Form: Quatern
To Leon
Leon,
Your love is beauty to me
like spacious skies
over gentle Cologne seas
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Categories:
leon, love,
Form: Free verse
Mila 18 By Leon Marcus Uris
read with absorptive guilt, aged sixteen; it haunts me and will never leave.
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Categories:
leon, books,
Form: Monoku
Leon Byner Has Left the Building
Leon Byner has left the building
After 23 years of people bargaining
He was the people’s voice to be heard
And on most things he was undeterred
I remember him spinning discs in the 60s and 70s
As a radio disc jockey so cool you see
Before shifting to talkback radio at 5AA
Where he would take on the issues
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Categories:
leon, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rainy Leon
This is in memory of legendary Leon Chaitow — — a piece of my 'Sasha & Leon Christmas walkabout'.
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There are always people who feel rain
And others who only easily become wet, whether they feel or not.
But there are extremely few people whom you have to be all eye to see, who not only feel the
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Categories:
leon, appreciation, memorial, memory,
Form: Free verse
Leon
Loving
Eager to try new things
Ornery and funny
Notorious for being hard to wake -up
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Categories:
leon, love,
Form: Acrostic
Kings of Leon
The road in front of us falls away,
The radio static becomes a wall we nod our heads to,
And the car splutters along like cheap fireworks
Again your eyes slide off the dash onto my hands
Which are busy being nervous.
In this silence it is impossible not to feel like an uninvited guest,
All flesh, no voice.
I
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Categories:
leon, dad, daughter, family, father,
Form: Free verse
This Masqurade - a Leon Russell Tribute
Ivory pieces transcending space and time
where the words just got in the way
lost inside the smoke of just another day
A song for you deep from a sensitive mind
reaching for a reaction for actions done wrong
forgiveness sung for a special friend of mine
When the dew drops no longer shine for me
and a hard rain begins to
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Categories:
leon, love, tribute,
Form: Ode
Second Time's the Charm
I’ll keep this short,
that all may know
These words I write,
I write to show
A singer* once said of
the trade that he plied
A poem is a person,
stands naked and spied
A compliment given
reflects back upon
The giver if not
those words were steeped on
So when you tell me
just so, to be nice
“The
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Categories:
leon, appreciation, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Didactic
Self Portrait Dedicated To Leon Trotsky Contest
SELF PORTRAIT DEDICATED TO LEON TROTSKY (by Frida Kahlo)
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Categories:
leon, allegory, art, political,
Form: Free verse
Leon
LEON, MY KING, HIS KING
IRIS, HIS QUEEN, HIS *****
I LOVE LEON
LEON IS MY KING
I WOULD DIE FOR HIM
HE WOULD KILL ME FROM WITHIN
I WOULDN'T DARE LOVE ANOTHER
LEON IS ALL I NEED
HE WOULD KILL ME SLOWLY
IF I LEFT FOR ANOTHER
I HAVE LEON THEREFORE
I HAVE LIFE
THANKS LEON FOR LOVING ME
NO THANKS FOR THIS LIFE
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Categories:
leon, boyfriend, love, me,
Form: Ode
Inspiration Kings of Leon Somebody
Think I'm showing off
Full of bull
Never there to push when pulled
Dulled
Looking to cull the itches
Looking to subtle the trenches
No that cant be
Not from what these eyes see
Not nobody
Correction.....
Not anyone can come between
Nor hurricane typhoon
Rollercoaster monsoon
Even with destiny' great angst
Or fates recluse
Or judgement day' recruit
Uff spine abiphida too
The gallows n their noose
A 4 star
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Categories:
leon, devotion
Form: Rhyme
Ain'T Got the Slang But You Got the Face To Play the Role Ode To Kings of Leon
Backstage and waiting
For my favorite
Band to just show up
Anticipation
Has got me dizzy
Heavy songs like: "Milk"
and "McFearless"
Here's my respect
For your music;
On God, Life
Teenage sex,
and "Tranies"
Southern
Home-grown
Kings
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Categories:
leon, art, dedication, music
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Leon & Gayle - Fifty Years
Now we mark a big occasion
The “Golden Wedding Anniversary“
Of George and Sally, or to you
“Leon and Gayle”
now here’s their tale ...
Gayle was a city of Moffett girl,
Leon a shy Allentown farm boy.
Opposites attracted,
And the result was just pure joy.
They raised cat, dogs, horses, cows,
Vegetables, flowers, bugs and all kinds of toys.
they also managed
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Categories:
leon, anniversary, thank you,
Form: I do not know?
Wouldn'T (With Leon In Mind)
You're the only one who turns my cheeks a rosy pink.
The only one that makes my future so clear.
Living the moment.
Was what I was all about.
But with you.
"Living the moment" is just another phrase.
Never thought this could ever happen.
Afraid with excitement.
Never thought I'd fall in love so quickly.
Seems like I'm rushing.
But with you.
It's the perfect
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Categories:
leon, love
Form: I do not know?
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